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Is an 8 team playoff a possibility?
Posted on 12/12/18 at 11:43 am
Posted on 12/12/18 at 11:43 am
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Several "influential voices in college football" are reportedly prepared to discuss increasing the number of College Football Playoff teams from four to eight. Nicole Auerbach of The Athletic reported Wednesday that CFP expansion has received a "groundswell of support" with hopes the change can happen before the current contract with ESPN, the event's broadcast partner, expires in 2026.
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Posted on 12/12/18 at 11:48 am to biggsc
6 is perfect, 8 is too many!
Needs to be some kind of reward for finishing 1 and 2 and a 6 team playoff would create that.
3 and 6 would play at 3's home stadium
4 and 5 would play at 4's home stadium
final 4 would be played like how the play it now.
Needs to be some kind of reward for finishing 1 and 2 and a 6 team playoff would create that.
3 and 6 would play at 3's home stadium
4 and 5 would play at 4's home stadium
final 4 would be played like how the play it now.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 11:48 am to PBD4BAMA
Bye weeks in college is a terrible idea. Giving a clearly better team a week off before playing an inferior team isn't the way.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 11:57 am to biggsc
IMO, to expand the playoffs in CFB, there has to be a reorganization of the power 5 conferences. Every p5 conference has to have the same number of teams and play the same number of conference games with OOC games coming only from other p5 conferences.
But that said, I hate the idea of CFB going to the NFL model, where a 8 and 5 team gets lucky or hot and makes the playoffs. 4 team playoff stretches the meaning of the regular season. More teams continue to dilute the regular season.
But that said, I hate the idea of CFB going to the NFL model, where a 8 and 5 team gets lucky or hot and makes the playoffs. 4 team playoff stretches the meaning of the regular season. More teams continue to dilute the regular season.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 11:57 am to AggieDub14
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Giving a clearly better team a week off before playing an inferior team
then why add "inferior" teams
keep it at 4Posted on 12/12/18 at 11:57 am to biggsc
I’m all for 8 teams. But I’d like to see parameters in place that are black and white... none of this gray shite where we depend on a bunch of 60+ year old dude’s opinions on who they feel are the “best teams.”
Give me the 5 Power 5 conference champions. If you want to be cute, allow the best G5 team in, then let the old dudes debate on the final two and the seeding.
I’m just ready to see college football implement something concrete, where we all know what needs to be done to make the playoff: win your conference being step 1.
Sick of these opinions and metrics being tossed around when we have all the data that we we need in the win/loss columns.
No other major sport in America depends on this type of data with such a minute sample size (12/13 games) to determine who gets to play for a championship.
Give me the 5 Power 5 conference champions. If you want to be cute, allow the best G5 team in, then let the old dudes debate on the final two and the seeding.
I’m just ready to see college football implement something concrete, where we all know what needs to be done to make the playoff: win your conference being step 1.
Sick of these opinions and metrics being tossed around when we have all the data that we we need in the win/loss columns.
No other major sport in America depends on this type of data with such a minute sample size (12/13 games) to determine who gets to play for a championship.
This post was edited on 12/12/18 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 12/12/18 at 12:01 pm to biggsc
4 is perfect because it keeps the regular season meaningful.
The college basketball regular season completely sucks because the games mean nothing.
Two top ten teams are playing? Who cares, the result means almost nothing. The winner and loser are still both going to the tournament with high seeds.
The bigger the tournament field, and the easier it is to make the tournament, the more irrelevant the regular season is.
The college basketball regular season completely sucks because the games mean nothing.
Two top ten teams are playing? Who cares, the result means almost nothing. The winner and loser are still both going to the tournament with high seeds.
The bigger the tournament field, and the easier it is to make the tournament, the more irrelevant the regular season is.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 12:14 pm to biggsc
The only negative to an 8 team playoff to me is scheduling and the fact that 4 of the 8 best teams of any given year will have their season be over before the first typical bowl games even begin.
With that, I'd wish they'd consider the first round not start til Jan. 1 range, second round around Jan. 9 , championship, on Jan. 16 or so.
With that, I'd wish they'd consider the first round not start til Jan. 1 range, second round around Jan. 9 , championship, on Jan. 16 or so.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 12:15 pm to PBD4BAMA
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Needs to be some kind of reward for finishing 1 and 2 and a 6 team playoff would create that.
Home field advantage?
Playing the lowest seed?
Posted on 12/12/18 at 12:19 pm to biggsc
quote:You mean Alabama, Clemson, and six other teams?
Is an 8 team playoff a possibility?
Posted on 12/12/18 at 12:23 pm to Shadowlink
Make it the 5 Power 5 conference champions with 3 at-large bids.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 12:34 pm to biggsc
They will eventually go to eight and when that happens talk will go to 16. Once they get to 16 they will stop.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 1:03 pm to rich4pres
I am all for 8............but we ALL know..........Bama makes it every year for sure then.................even with 2 or 3 losses.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 1:11 pm to dirtbag lsu
Groundbreaking analysis there. They've made it every year with 4.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 1:16 pm to RoscoeHarper
I worry about the wear and tear on the athletes. We’re already playing the Orange bowl with Tua questionable and Hollywood Brown most likely out. If we go to 8 teams, a regular season game or championship games have to go and nobody will agree to that revenue cut.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 1:21 pm to PBD4BAMA
I don’t care about the format as long as the 5 P5 conf champs get in. It should have been that way from day one. It’s better for everyone and takes pressure off of particular conferences that worry about being left out. I think that hurts the integrity of the game.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 1:21 pm to TheHat7
No bc the monopoly won’t allow it.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 1:22 pm to TheHat7
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I don’t care about the format as long as the 5 P5 conf champs get in. It should have been that way from day one. It’s better for everyone and takes pressure off of particular conferences that worry about being left out. I think that hurts the integrity of the game.
Letting a 9-3 team (PAC 12 champ Washington) in the playoffs hurts the integrity of the game.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 1:50 pm to PBD4BAMA
I was going to post 6 teams. Giving a bye to the top 2 is a nice reward.
Alternately, the playoffs would consist of a varying amount every year, based on the collective eyeball test. Impossible until we get much better metrics to compare teams, plus some kind of standardized scheduling (every p5 team plays its own conf. schedule, plus 1 game against each of the other 4 P5 confereneces, on a rotating basis as far as the teams are chosen. That's 12-14 games a season, though.
Alternately, the playoffs would consist of a varying amount every year, based on the collective eyeball test. Impossible until we get much better metrics to compare teams, plus some kind of standardized scheduling (every p5 team plays its own conf. schedule, plus 1 game against each of the other 4 P5 confereneces, on a rotating basis as far as the teams are chosen. That's 12-14 games a season, though.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 2:09 pm to dirtbag lsu
quote:Bama's making it every fricking year in the 4 team playoff. LSU can either deal with it or beat them and make it harder for them to get in.
I am all for 8............but we ALL know..........Bama makes it every year for sure then.................even with 2 or 3 losses.
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